Jessica Dettmann is the author of four novels and one book for children. She’s Joining us today with her new novel Your Friend and Mine.
36 min
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Omar Sakr’s The Nightmare Sequence
Omar is an award winning poet and writer from Western Sydney. His works include the novel, Son of Sin and the poetry collection The Lost Arabs, which won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award.
43 min
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Thomas Vowles’s Our New Gods
Ash has recently arrived in Melbourne and is seeking to define himself outside of his small town existence. When he meets Luke it’s love-at-first-sight, at least for Ash. Luke is gorgeous and seems to be everything; great apartment, cool friends, hot boyfriend. Raf is something else; cool, in control, dangerous. At least according to Booth, and Booth is scared…
40 min
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Book Club - Brandon Jack’s Pissants
3 min
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First Nations Classics - Paul Collis’s Dancing ...
The First Nations Classics series from UQP ranges across genres, including memoir, fiction, non-fiction and poetry. The series is inspired by the richness and cultural importance of First Nations writing, and aims to bring new readers and renewed attention to brilliant, timeless books that are as relevant today as they were on first publication.
26 min
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Book Club - Thomas Vowles’s Our New Gods
Ash has recently arrived in Melbourne. Like so many who’ve come from a regional town he’s looking to define himself whilst feeling wary of being . When he meets James it’s love-at-first-sight, at least for Ash
3 min
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Matt Rogers’s The Forsaken
Matt Rogers is the best selling author of more than thirty novels and is joining us today with his new novel, inaugurating his Logan Booth series, The Forsaken. You never know who your neighbours are behind closed doors. Logan Booth is counting on that. He doesn’t want to get chummy with the denizens of Brownsville and he doesn’t want them knowing anything about him. Especially not his past. It’s a Devil’s Bargain. One that will see Logan’s only friend killed before his eyes, forcing Logan back into a life he thought he’d left behind forever.
37 min
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Sinead Stubbins’s Stinkbug
Sinead Stubbins is a writer, editor and cultural critic, and the author of In My Defence, I Have No Defence. Her debut novel is Stinkbug. The advertising agency where Edith works is going through a restructure. Everyone’s worried the new Swedish owners will bring their own team and they’ll be out of a job. With redundancies the hot topic round the watercooler, a select group of Winked employees are chosen for a corporate retreat. Edith’s made the cut and assumes this is her chance to show her worth. The assignment is simple; find a best work friend. Easy for Edith, she’s already got Mo and while she’s got some other stuff going on, surely she can fake her way through a weekend. Sure there’s dead birds at the perimeter and Edith is hiding a dark secret. But really, what could go wrong in a converted Convent watched over by a saint called Christina the Astonishing?!
42 min
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Book Club - Omar Sakr's The Nightmare Sequence
Presenting a poem and reflection by Omar Sakr as part of his new collection 'The Nightmare Sequence'.
4 min
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Robbie Arnott’s Dusk
22 min
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Book Club - Laura Elvery’s Nightingale
3 min
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Hilde Hinton’s The Opposite of Lonely
Hilde Hinton is the bestselling author of The Loudness of Unsaid Things, and A Solitary Walk on the Moon. Hilde is joining us today with her latest novel The Opposite of Lonely.
32 min
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Book Club - Mandy Beaumont’s The Thrill of It
In the late 1980’s Sydney is a long way from the global city we know today. From the beach to the Mountains awash with fluro tracksuits, hypercolour t-shirts, thongs and walkmans the harbour city can still feel like a village in your own little patch Emmerson gets to enjoys the best of it, with harbour views courtesy of a legacy from her grandmother, the socialite and designer Marlowe Kerr. But when the body of a woman in her eighties is discovered in the northern beaches the city will be thrown into chaos. Older residents lock themselves in their homes for fear the killer may strike again. Emmerson herself is thrust back to another legacy of her adored grandmother. Marlowe was killed in a strikingly similar way. A case that was never solved.
4 min
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Shelley Burr’s Vanish
Shelley Burr is the bestselling author of Wake and Ripper. Her debut Wake won the UK Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger Award, the Australian Book Industry's Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year and the Australian Crime Writers Association's Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction. Shelley’s joining Andrew today with her new novel Vanish
37 min
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Book Club - Sinead Stubbins’ Stinkbug
The advertising agency where Edith works is going through a restructure. Everyone is worried that the new Swedish owners will bring their own team and they’ll be out of a job. When a select group are chosen for a corporate retreat Edith assumes that this is her chance to show her worth. The assignment is simple; find a best work friend. Easy for Edith, she’s already got Mo and so the retreat should be a piece of cake. I mean what could go wrong in a converted Convent watched over by a saint called Christina the Astonishing?!
3 min
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Vijay Khurana’s The Passenger Seat
Vijay Khurana is a writer and translator from German. He’s joining Andrew with his debut novel, The Passenger Seat, which was shortlisted for the Novel Prize.
41 min
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Laura Elvery’s Nightingale
Laura Elvery is the author of Trick of the Light and Ordinary Matter, which won the 2021 Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection. Laura’s joining Andrew today with her first novel Nightingale.
44 min
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Gretchen Shirm's Out of the Woods
38 min
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Book Club - Vijay Khurana’s The Passenger Seat
Vijay Khurana is a writer and translator from German. His debut novel, The Passenger Seat, was shortlisted for the Novel Prize.
4 min
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Book Club - Chris Flynn’s Orpheus Nine
4 min
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Jane Caro's The Lyrebird
47 min
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Book Club - Ann Dombroski’s After the Great Storm
3 min
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Chris Flynn’s Orpheus Nine
Chris is the award winning author of Mammoth - the story of a loquacious fossil, The Glass Kingdom - a drug fueled romp through outback Australia and perhaps the strangest of all Here Be Leviathans - a collection of Monkey’s, Platypuses and Sabretooth Tigers working well outside their pay grade. Chris is back with his new novel Orpheus Nine
51 min
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Caro Llewelyn’s Love Unedited
Caro Llewellyn is the author of the Stella Prize shortlisted memoir Diving into Glass, and has worked with writers in publishing and as a Festival Director and human rights advocate. Her new novel is Love Unedited
39 min
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Book Club - Naima Brown’s Mother Tongue
When Brynn awakes from her coma her life is still the same picture of suburban idyll. It’s just Brynn doesn’t seem to fit it anymore. She speaks fluent French, a thing called Foreign Accent Syndrome, and English is an effort.